I know Mario Kart is insanely competitive
Yeah you can lower the settings and also make it simpler but Animal Crossing Bells unless you're the minority who does not care about losing, then you're aggressive. And of course when you're an adult playing against people who are kids or older kids, you're not going to care about shedding weight.
I know Mario Kart is insanely competitive but I figured talking about young children (under 4) and elderly adults who have never gamed I was more leaning on the ability for mario kart to be inclusive to a vast assortment of play. There is a place for aggressive kart and then there's letting your young family members enjoy winning every once in a while perusing beneath the assault of this blue shell you picked up on the first lap and were holding onto just to crushing their souls and show them exactly what the actual world is like.
Coming from somebody who has played every Animal Crossing, I agree it seems somewhat lifeless, they gutted the game and have been slowly trickling in older features/characters through updates, you can't even update the Nook store which was a staple of prior games, I can absolutely admit that they fucked up, despite me with 500+ hours at New Horizons.
Additionally, the hardcore players will surely buy it twice just to have multiple islands. I bought ACNL two (one physical, one digital) for this reason and I now have digital ACNH and am considering picking up a physical copy just for a fuck-around island.
I purchased it because of the hype. That is famous to saybut the game is really boring. After you receive your three of four important buildings done and a couple of island inhabitants, all you have to do is collect materials and craft stuff in a work bench. Or you can buy items at the general store. But it's super repetitive and I can not find a reason people are so crazed about it. Like I can not even spend a complete hour on the match at one time.
With that said, I really do think it's an amazing game but I would not have put so much time to it when I was not playing with friends and family. During the pandemic, we'd get on and enjoy each others company, Talk about what fish we obtained, any cool items we had at the shop, commerce and gift items to buy Animal Crossing Items each other etc..